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"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
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"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
"The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
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